| Author |
Across the Fence:  Economy getting better or worse?  |
|
melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3341 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
3341 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 07 2012 : 08:52:19 AM
|
I think your right Sherrie about media influence!
I don't know how people make it at all with the just the basic price of milk and bread and other groceries-let alone for growing, new families that have to buy diapers and formula-And what about that "American" dream of building your own home? Is that even within reach anymore?
-How is it that the economy can even grow at all when one is struggling just to get along with the bare essentials? I worry so much about my kids and what the future will hold for them. It certainly won't be in this depressed, stagnant town-They will have to move away to a larger city to have an opportunity for growth.
Melody
|
 |
|
|
Room To Grow
True Blue Farmgirl
974 Posts
Deborah
Kingston
Georgia
USA
974 Posts |
Posted - Aug 14 2012 : 06:42:27 AM
|
the media is just as bad or worse than the lobbyists...they need to both be quite so real people can get on with there lives.
Deborah
we have moved to our farm...and love it |
|
|
|
Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Aug 14 2012 : 08:39:24 AM
|
Deborah, I so agree with you on that point.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
|
|
|
Melina
True Blue Farmgirl
435 Posts
Melina
USA
435 Posts |
Posted - Aug 14 2012 : 09:51:33 AM
|
I quit getting a newspaper about 10 years ago. I just watch one local and one national news report a day, no more. I find I'm a lot more positive than I've ever been and I still stay informed. As for the economy, we retired last year, so we are more or less on a very fixed income. Things will get tougher for us, but I'll grow and can more, shop at the thrift store more, and find cheap ways to entertain myself.
The morning breeze has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep.
Rumi |
|
|
|
nabrown42
True Blue Farmgirl
409 Posts
Nancy
Caneyville
KY
USA
409 Posts |
Posted - Aug 14 2012 : 10:14:43 AM
|
Our area is depressed but Kentucky has been that way for ages. The closest town of any size, though, has been seeing a growth of industries relocating to the area because the land prices are so low. Our personal finances, IRA, has grown enough to replace the funds we lost in the crash so that's good. The big box stores have eaten up the mom amd pop establishments...I guess it's a wash. Good news and bad news. Some places are better than others. I'm still happy to live in the US even with the bad news.
"I've wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to someone's needs I've been blind; but I've yet to feel a twinge of regret for being a little too kind." |
|
|
|
AlyssaMarie
True Blue Farmgirl
287 Posts
AlyssaMarie
Palouse
Washington
USA
287 Posts |
Posted - Aug 14 2012 : 11:08:08 AM
|
For financial reasons, we cut TV. The benefits have been greater than just the financial. I love it that I can read the news online, only when I want to and I don't have to have that negetive input into my life everyday. I'm a lot happier.
AlyssaMarie @ Link'd Hearts Ranch
|
|
|
|
oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
1511 Posts
tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
1511 Posts |
Posted - Aug 14 2012 : 11:30:03 AM
|
if they would bring back the home ec. classes in schools, along with the ag. and wood/metal/auto classes, maybe the kids would be able to learn things that they need to know in this economy...it scares the heck out of me knowing that the average kid and adults , do not know how to grow even a tomato plant, let alone raise a chicken for even just eggs, and I live in a rural area with a county fair and (used to be) tons of 4-H kids...people are finding they veggy gardens stripped clean, chickens disappearing and livestock butchered out in their pastures, they is only 1 foodbank left in our area, and the people who really need help are lucky to get 1/2 of a meals worth once a momth...the cost of grocerys/gas/clothes etc are so high now, I don't know anyone who can afford it, even the thrift shops prices are going up...I truely believe that there will be major civil unrest soon, cause people just can't survive, and when you can't feed your kids, you will do what it takes...
"Knowlege is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad" |
|
|
|
Across the Fence: Economy getting better or worse? |
|
Economy getting better or worse?
